Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-24
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AN oil well. with capacity Of about one
thousand barre.s daily, was struck while
digging for gas on the 10Th at Marion, Ind
HE Supreme Court Of Missouri on the
l9sh decided the Local Option law consti-
tutional. The law is exceedingly severe,
amounting to prohibition
NEAR Lexington. KY, awagon containing
two men and twOwomen was struck by 8
train on the 10Th, and the four persons
were killed
THROUGHOUT the Northwest blizzard,
accompanied by a very heavy fall OF snow,
prevailed on the 18th.
DISPATCHES Of thu 10Th say that several
persons were killed and others were in
jured by a cyclone which passed through
portions of Indian Territory and Arkansas
and large amount Of property was de-
stroyed
FIVE men were Instantly killed by an ex-
plosion on the 10Th in q saw-mill at Tlton,
Ga
JUDGE ]. E. TRE8BLE and James A Ram
seT, prominent citizens Of Farmersville,
Ky, shot ich othsr dead on the 10th dur
ing quarrel
ADy1cEs Of the Goth say that owing to
the clos ng Of the South Carol .na phosphate
mines many negroes were STRIVING.
A FIRE on the Goth nearly destroyed the
town of Weeping Water, Neb.
On the 20 h over five hundred represent
alive Indiana Republicans met in confer
ence at indianapolis and adopted resolu-
hons favoring protective tariff pensions
and the expenditure Of the surplus on forts
REPORTS of the Goth from some of the
counties in Western Kansas, particularly
Clark, were to the effect that the farmers
Were suffering for the want Of food, coal
and clothing. Six persons were known to
have died from freezing.
ELIHU GREGG, a notorious horse thief. was
found dead on the ooh in the mountains
of West Virginia with bullet-hole in his
breast The man was over eighty years
cd, and he had been known as desperate
criminal for fifty years
The Virg mia Legis. ature electe John s
Barbour United States Senator on the Goth
to succeed Mr.. Riddleberger
A Blizzard prevailed in portions of Min
nesota, Iowa, Illinois, M ssouri. Kansas, Col
orado and Dakota on the Doth. The snow
was unusual y heavy, and was driven by q
fierce wind, blockading railway trains
The therm ometer was "a degrees below
zero at some points.
FOURTEEN officers acting under the United
States Marshal for the Western dissr ct Of
in Indian Territory during the last two
years, and lawlessness was on the Goth said
to be on the increase
OWING to the decision of the Supreme
Court risks amounting to $500, 600 on the
property of brewers at Dubuque, Ia, were
ordered cancelled on the 2O5h by Eastern
insurance companies
BY collision on the St Paul road at
jackson Junction, Ia, three train-men
were fatally injured on the 21st.
HE steamer San Vincente, owned by the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company, was
burned to the waters edge off Pigeon
point on the 21st and out Of the crew of
nineteen officers and men eleven were lost.
FIRE destroyed the business portion of
the town OF Dwell Ind, on the 2lst
HE death of Major W. W. Van Antwerp,
postmaster at Jackson, Mich, occurred at
his residence in that city on the DIST
In portions OF Colorado the thermometer
registered from 20 to 81 degrees below
zero on the 21st, the latter record being at
Robinson, where the cold was SO intense
that the people feared to venture from their
houses
In saloon at Opelousas, La, dispute
over politics on the 21st ended in the fatal
shooting OF three men.